Penny Dreadful. The ultra-budget, thousands-of-cards Magic Online brewer's paradise with powerful cards, six free weekly tournaments, free 24/7 league, prizes, quarterly rotations, and a super friendly community.
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How do I get started with Magic Online?
Check out the guide to Magic Online.
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Card legality is set quarterly based on which cards are 2¢ or less at that time.
The best way to search legal cards is with Scryfall.
You can view the full legal cards list.
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How do I find or brew a decklist?
Minimum 60 cards. Any number of basic lands. Max four of any other legal card. Sideboard of up to fifteen cards.
The best way to build decks is to use a search engine that supports Penny Dreadful legality (f:pd) like Scryfall.
Browse Decklists from tournaments, leagues and elsewhere
View the full legal cards list
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How do I get a game and find other Penny Dreadful players?
To get a match in Magic Online go to Constructed, Specialty, Freeform Tournament Practice on Magic Online and create a Freeform game with "Penny Dreadful" in the comments.
To find the Penny Dreadful community join the Discord.
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Leagues last for roughly a month. You may enter any number of times but only one deck at a time.
You play five matches per run. You can join the league at any time.
To find a game sign up and then create a game in Constructed, Specialty, Freeform Tournament Practice with "Penny Dreadful League" as the comment.
Top 8 finishers on each month's league leaderboard win credit with Cardhoarder.
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We have six free-to-enter weekly tournaments with prizes from Cardhoarder.
They are hosted on Gatherling along with a lot of other player-run Magic Online events.
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Legality is determined a week after the release of a Standard-legal set on Magic Online.
Prices are checked every hour for a week. Anything 2¢ or less for half or more of all checks is legal for the season.
Any version of a card on the legal cards list is legal.
The next rotation is in 9 weeks, 3 days.
Decks
Record
| # Decks | Record | Win % | ① | ⑧ | 5–0s | Elo |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 64 | 56–154 | 26.7 | 5 | 1158 |
Achievements
Archetype Tree
| Archetype | # Decks | Record | Win % | ① | ⑧ | 5–0s |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aggro | 5 | 4–13 | 23.5 | 0 | 4 | |
| Tokens | 5 | 4–13 | 23.5 | 0 | 4 | |
| Mono White Tokens | 5 | 4–13 | 23.5 | 0 | 4 | |
| Combo | 19 | 22–48 | 31.4 | 0 | 1 | |
| Storm | 3 | 3–8 | 27.3 | |||
| High Tide | 2 | 3–4 | 42.9 | |||
| Reanimator | 1 | 1–4 | 20.0 | |||
| Worldgorger Dragon | 1 | 1–4 | 20.0 | |||
| Double Dragon | 1 | 1–4 | 20.0 | |||
| Oriss Genesis | 1 | 0–3 | 0.0 | |||
| Heartless Summoning Combo | 2 | 1–8 | 11.1 | |||
| Izzet Ascension | 2 | 0–5 | 0.0 | |||
| Jokulhaups Combo | 3 | 4–8 | 33.3 | |||
| Breakfast | 1 | 1–0 | 100.0 | |||
| Oops All Spells | 1 | 1–0 | 100.0 | |||
| Protean Hulk Combo | 1 | 0–3 | 0.0 | |||
| Restore Balance | 4 | 12–5 | 70.6 | 0 | 1 | |
| Control | 13 | 4–33 | 10.8 | |||
| Azorius Control | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
| Turbo Fog | 1 | 2–2 | 50.0 | |||
| Izzet Control | 1 | 0–3 | 0.0 | |||
| Cloudpost Control | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
| Mono White Cloudpost Control | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
| Grixis Control | 1 | 1–4 | 20.0 | |||
| Stax | 1 | 0–4 | 0.0 | |||
| Runeflare | 1 | 1–4 | 20.0 | |||
| Cycling Control | 2 | 0–3 | 0.0 | |||
| Astral Slide | 2 | 0–3 | 0.0 | |||
| Seasons Past Control | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
| Prison | 1 | 0–4 | 0.0 | |||
| Enchantress | 1 | 0–4 | 0.0 | |||
| Combo-Control | 7 | 7–13 | 35.0 | |||
| Burning Vengeance | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
| Hedron Alignment | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
| Zur's Weirding | 1 | 1–4 | 20.0 | |||
| Plasma Swans | 2 | 5–2 | 71.4 | |||
| Midrange | 20 | 16–47 | 25.4 | |||
| Blink | 7 | 7–15 | 31.8 | |||
| Wave Blink | 6 | 7–14 | 33.3 | |||
| Esper Wave | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
| Azorius Wave | 2 | 1–7 | 12.5 | |||
| Orzhov Wave | 1 | 1–1 | 50.0 | |||
| Abzan Wave | 2 | 5–5 | 50.0 | |||
| Acid Trip | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
| Fake-Rack | 4 | 2–10 | 16.7 | |||
| Big Red | 2 | 4–6 | 40.0 | |||
| Dimir Midrange | 1 | 0–3 | 0.0 | |||
| Lifegain Midrange | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
| Heartless Summoning Stompy | 1 | 3–1 | 75.0 | |||
| Artifact Midrange | 3 | 0–7 | 0.0 | |||
| Coinflips | 1 | 0–3 | 0.0 |